Terry Reedy wrote:
Various people have asked on c.l.p about documentation of CPython's
virtual machine internals. The usual answers have been to see the dis
module doc for bytecodes and 'read the code' for more. Jakob Sievers
did so and posted his notes, with additions from Martin v. Löwis, as
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CPythonVmInternals
That's interesting. It's dumber than I thought. All temporaries
on the stack are "boxed" as PyObjects. That's simple and portable,
but slow.
John Nagle
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